We started French with Aria. Her favorite words so far (based on the sound of the words) are those for penguin and doll. We were talking about her cousins and she said when she sees them she wants to say "Bonjour. Je t'aime"

We're due at the very end of the year. Aria's excited to be a big sister. She's gotten a chance to see 2 new babies in our community, with another coming along pretty much any day now, so she has a pretty good idea of what we're talking about. We met with our homebirth midwives today, and I think they're great. They came recommended by 
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We moved into our new house ( Read more... )

We had a celebration last night to welcome the first family to *move in* to CoHo! Two other families closed yesterday, and several should close today, hopefully including us. We've been using the common house since Saturday for meetings, food, and play. Yay!!! I'm really enjoying this community so far ( Read more... )

A lot has been going on in the last week, but no stress, yay! I'm writing meal plan software for our community and I'm having fun working on it, so this entry will be short. I just wanted to say we love Corvallis and love the CoHo community. We'll move in early in October.

Tuesday night I had a dream that I was part of a group of people working on interpersonal relationships and the group process and that I had finished my PhD so that I had enough time to work on things with them and spend time with my family ( Read more... )

Aria saw a picture of me when I was very pregnant with her. She pointed to the picture of my bare, bulging belly, looked at me with a curious and hopeful look, and said, "May-may?" (May-may is our word for Mommy Milk).

I printed out a draft of my dissertation yesterday, and Aria took one
of the pages with color images and started saying over and over in her
little toddler voice: "ooh! wow!" Well, Prof. Adviser, my *baby* likes
my dissertation...

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At Aria's birthday party, we got to see
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